What Does it Mean to Be an Eco-INSTITUT Tested Product?

The Eco Institute, located in Cologne, Germany is a highly respected organization responsible for testing products to determine their pollutants and emissions. The institute has more than 25 years of experience testing products for trace amounts and even residues of hazardous chemicals as well as the testing of emissions or outgassing created by the products.

What does the Eco-INSTITUT Certification mean to Consumers?

Products bearing the Eco-INSTITUT certification are products you can use in your home with confidence that they do not contain even trace amounts of hazardous chemicals and will not produce foul, unhealthy off gassing in your home. These are important considerations for many families and can make a world of difference to your pleasure in your new purchase.

As a consumer, you don’t want to invest in products that could harm your family. Unfortunately, with many products, labeling makes it difficult to know whether you’re really getting what you think you are when you purchase a product.

Certifications like the Eco-INSTITUT certification help bridge the gap. Since Eco-INSTITUT certification is offered by an independent certification agency and has no vested interests in the products they certify, you can count on their certifications to indicate products that are safe for families.

What is the Approval Process Like?

The Eco-INSTITUT certification tests to ensure that that certain thresholds for emissions are met. The process goes something like this.

Companies requesting certification send product samples along with a list of materials to see if products qualify for approval.

Tests are conducted by independent third parties.

Once passed, the Eco Institute conducts their own tests inside their laboratories.

Products that pass are issued labels for certification. Other products are sent back for changes and advice prior to being tested again.

The impressive thing about Eco-INSTITUT certification is that it isn’t looking for products that meet minimal safety requirements, but for those that go above and beyond to meet higher standards in materials and manufacturing.

That’s why we’re so pleased that our PlushBeds Botanical Bliss line of mattresses have met and surpassed these standards of excellence and safety. We’re sure you’ll find them to be a perfect and perfectly safe addition to use inside your home and around your family.

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Every Plushbeds latex mattress, latex topper and memory foam mattress is sold with a carbon neutral mindset.

What this means that we have obtained an offset to balance out any greenhouse gas emissions we create by running our website and back end operations.
We worked with TerraPass on doing an audit. They helped us measure exactly how much carbon we were putting into the atmosphere by running the Plushbeds website.

Armed with that knowledge, TerraPass has taken actions to offset our carbon footprint by funding clean energy and other projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
At the end of the day our emissions will be balanced out by a comparable amount of reductions.

Every TerraPass project is conducted and verified according to a publically available carbon offset standard such as the Voluntary Carbon Standard 2007 and the Climate Action Reserve.

We hope that in time many more websites will also become carbon neutral.